
Explore what interviews are, the different formats, and how to prepare using self-awareness, psychology of communication, and social identity insights; finish with essential interview day tips and a practical checklist.
Understand what an interview is across casual to formal settings, including psychology, academia, scholarship, and promotions. Focus the course on the job interview, which can be intense and nerve-wracking.
Assess candidates by focusing on you as the candidate, the panel of interviewers, and the job you applied for. Prepare for a job interview as the next focus area.
Explore how human behavior shapes your personality through character and temperament, and how these traits influence interview impressions and behavior patterns.
Understand temperament as a genetic basis shaping behavior and its evolution into personality, which can be adjusted to environments; prepare for interviews by studying job ads to present sought personality.
The students will be able to search for a job, understand the requirements and apply.
The course provides you with the essential guidelines on how to succeed with a job interview. It takes you through a step-by-step process of preparation until the day of the interview. It starts with an overview of what the course covers and the different kinds of interviews. In the section about preparation for an interview, you learn about the role of both the candidate and the panel within the interview. This section equips you with essential skills you need to know about the role of each member of the panel in the interview and how you can use that knowledge to have a successful interview. The section is followed by the topic on self-awareness, whereby I explore the famous “who am I” question. In this section, you will learn how to answer the common question about yourself. The question that you will be assisted in answering is, “would you please briefly tell us about yourself?" The course will also help you understand how the essential knowledge about yourself can help you prepare for the “who am I” question, which you are guaranteed to be asked in an interview. You will also learn about personality, temperament, and the psychology of communication. The concepts mentioned above also plays a critical role in leading to a successful interview. You will learn how to portray a personality that reflects the person that the panel is looking for in an interview. You will learn how to use your personality to secure your dream job.